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Museum Discoveries from the Vatican Archives

Public Program
Film still from a 1939 Universal Newsreel showing Pope Pius XI on the balcony at the Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome. National Archives

Film still from a 1939 Universal Newsreel showing Pope Pius XI on the balcony at the Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome. National Archives

Learn about the Museum's research at the recently opened Vatican archives in Rome. Among other findings, these archives reveal that after the Holocaust, the Vatican campaigned to shield Nazis from justice. Join us to explore the circumstances under which Vatican officials tried to save the lives of Holocaust perpetrators.

Chairs
Emily and Michael Robins
Cathy and Joel Schneider

This program is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

For more information, please contact the Museum’s Midwest Regional Office at midwest@ushmm.org.

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